Example sentences of "of [adj] have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 2 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 3 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 4 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 5 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |
| 6 | ( The government 's economic policy and budget for the rest of 1992 had been promised for Feb. 15 . ) |
| 7 | An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in … |
| 8 | Recently , ( Mosaic 9 ( 1984 ) , 7 ) a date of 300-320 has been proposed for the Woodchester mosaic . |
| 9 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 10 | In fact , all but one of the new peptide sequences obtained in the analysis of GGF-II have been accounted for within the predicted GGFHBS5 protein sequence . |